Sherdog’s Top 10: Rising Stars, 2015 First Edition - Top 10

By: Patrick WymanJun 24, 2015

Sports exist in an eternal state of flux. Older competitors fall
off their games, the victims of age-related decline, and younger
athletes replace them in the remorseless meat grinder that
entertains the masses on a weekly basis. MMA is no different. New
fighters debut on every major card, while older fighters retire or
fall out of the big leagues and onto local or regional events.

The straightforward criteria: no current or former champions in the
UFC, Bellator or
World Series of Fighting and no current or former title
challengers in those organizations. We weighed in-cage ability
alongside marketability, personality and charisma, and the
following was the result.